Only 34% Of Adults Can Pass This Random History Trivia Quiz

Many of us stop learning when we reach adulthood but this is a drastic mistake to make. Life is all about learning and there is new knowledge to be gained every single day that we are on this planet. We will never run out of history to learn about as we are always making more of it.

History is entirely a renewable resource and it is ours to make. Even the sentence you just read, and what you are going to do next is and will become a part of your history.

Only about a third of adults can pass this random history knowledge quiz but there is a chance that you fall into that group of people. If you think you know more about history than the large majority of the adult population then you will want to take this quiz, answer the questions contained within, and we will see how much you actually know about human history.

Question 1 / 15

Who is generally credited with having been the first king of England and ruled from 802 until 839?

Edward III

King Ralph

Henry II

Egbert

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Question 2 / 15

What year was slavery in the United States abolished?

1883

1849

1901

1865

Bullseye!

I'm afraid that wasn't it.

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Question 3 / 15

The Hundred Years' War was fought from 1337 until 1453 between England and what other country?

United States of America

France

Russia

Spain

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Question 4 / 15

What year did D-Day take place during World War II?

1942

1944

1941

1939

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Not quite right.

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Question 5 / 15

In what United States city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?

Los Angeles

Dallas

New York City

Washington, D.C.

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Question 6 / 15

In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?

1773

1804

1865

1712

Sweet!

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Question 7 / 15

What was the 48th state to officially join the United States of America?

Hawaii

Arizona

Alaska

New Mexico

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That was incorrect.

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Question 8 / 15

What explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

Amelia Earhart

Christopher Columbus

Leif Erikson

Fantastic!

Hmm, I don't think so.

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Question 9 / 15

What was the second Japanese city hit with an atomic bomb during World War II?

Tokyo

Nagasaki

Hiroshima

Fukushima

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Question 10 / 15

What country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

France

England

Italy

Canada

You're doing great!

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Question 11 / 15

In what year did the American Revolution war begin?

1712

1865

1765

1824

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Question 12 / 15

What famous and important invention is generally credited to Johannes Gutenberg?

The automobile

The lightbulb

The Steve Gutenberg

The printing press

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Question 13 / 15

What year did the Soviet Union fall?

1994

1991

1985

1979

Stunning!

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Question 14 / 15

Who was the 25th president of the United States of America?

Theodore Roosevelt

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Grover Cleveland

Woohoo!

I'm afraid that wasn't it.

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Question 15 / 15

What year did Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin become the first human in space?

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